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    <h2>Documentation</h2>

    The Semantic Engine has been written as a series of C++ libraries to make it 
    easier for other developers to integrate it into their code. The documentation
    below describes the main features of the Semantic Engine and how it can be used.
    
    <p>1. <a href="installation.html">Installation</a>: Steps for installing the
    Semantic Engine software on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.</p>

    <p>2. <a href="usage.html">Getting Started</a>: Some usage notes for getting 
    the Semantic Engine to work with your code.</p>

    <p>3. <a href="examples.html">Examples</a>: Some examples for building programs
    that index and search text.</p>

    <p>4. <a href="tools.html">Tools</a>: A command-line indexing and searching tool
    is included in the Semantic Engine distribution. The program usage is described here.</p>
    <p>5. C++ Detailed API:</p>
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    <li><a href="semantic.html">Semantic Graph</a>: descriptions of the base graph
    classes</li>
    <li><a href="spreading_activation.html">Ranking</a>: documentation of
    the graph traversal and ranking algorithms.</li>
    <li><a href="weighting.html">Weights</a>: Descriptions of the various weighting
    schemes available to the semantic classes</li>
    <li><a href="indexing.html">Indexing</a>: API documentation for the indexing
    classes</li>
    <li><a href="filter.html">Filtering</a>: Explanation of how documents and
    words are filtered as a part of the pre-processing stage.</li> <li><a
    href="utility.html">Utility functions</a>: Miscellaneous methods available
    to semantic classes</li> </ol>   <p>6. <a href="perl.html">Perl API</a>:
    Documentation of the perl bindings to the Semantic Engine code</p>
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